The educated elite is not without their own actual snobbery. And I kind of an anti-elitist in that regard.

I'm just recommending you find other things to base your spirituality on, rather than where science is yet to tread.

Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

You like to explore things, and your parents don't like it because it gets the pots and pans dirty, and because it's noisy - but for you it's fun, you're resting. You're actually doing experiments... Just tell your parents that they're experiments, and you want to become a scientist, and then they won't stop you from doing anything you want.

Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I'm small but I'm also big. I'm big because I'm connected to the universe and the universe is connected to me.

The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.